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Brueggeman is suspended from practicing law in Ohio for the next six months. The disciplinary board issued a two-year suspension but stayed 18 months of it.

In two separate cases, investigators said Brueggeman abandoned clients after agreeing to help them settle estates.

In 2017, Rebecca Lowry was trying to handle the estate of her deceased brother. Investigators said Brueggeman notarized a false signature on the man's truck title and then cut off contact with Lowry when he could not execute a plan to handle her brother's house the way he had planned.

In that same year, Brueggman agreed to handle the estate of a woman in Medina County who had 14 surviving children.

Investigators said he failed to get the family members paperwork in a timely fashion and failed to ensure it received by the court.

Brueggeman eventually told one family member "he could not keep making the 400-mile round trip from Mason to Medina for hearings, but did not tell her he was terminating his representation or that she needed another lawyer. Instead, he said he would contact the mother’s creditors and attempt to negotiate the debts."

The family tried 40 times to contact Brueggeman for over about month, then resorted to hiring another lawyer.

The disciplinary board also stated Brueggeman "has a history of prior discipline."

Court News Ohio said this is the second time the Court has suspended Brueggeman for neglecting client matters and his third overall suspension since 2010.

Brueggeman received a one-year, fully stayed suspension in 2010 for his neglect of four client matters, failing to reasonably communicate with affected clients, and not cooperating with the disciplinary investigations, according to the CNO report.

In 2013, he was suspended for six days for missing the deadline to register as a practicing attorney in Ohio.

If Brueggeman engages in any other misconduct, the board said it will suspend him for the full two-year period.